August 15, 2024
Visual artists

‘ACCESS EXCESS’ by Amy Boone-McCreesh on view in HUB Gallery until March 2024

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — “ACCESS EXCESS,” an exhibition of installation works by Baltimore-based artist Amy Boone-McCreesh, is on view in the HUB Gallery at Penn State’s University Park campus until March 1, 2024. Working in sculpture, collage and mixed media, Boone-McCreesh presents a maximalist take on the idea of luxury and access. Her colorful works critique

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Her Guide Dog Inspired Her Art, and Stars in Her Museum Show

How does it feel to have your life change in an instant? Emilie Gossiaux was an art student at the Cooper Union in 2010 when she was hit by an 18-wheel truck while on her bike in Brooklyn. Taken to Bellevue Hospital, she had suffered a traumatic brain injury, a stroke and multiple fractures. While

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How The World Trade Center Became a Premiere Incubator for Visual Artists – Commercial Observer

For up-and-coming visual artists in New York City, the notion of having a large studio space that allows them to do expansive work is often little more than a pipe dream squashed by the reality of high rents. But for 28 artists every year, this fantasy becomes reality, as they get to create their art

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Remnants of the Unknowable go on display

Virginia Russolo’s 3D printing installation inspired by Chinese oracle bones. “Remnants of the Unknowable” is the title of an exhibition currently underway at No.8 Bridge Art Space through December 14. The exhibition of the ICCI Art Valley Program at USC-SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry, features artworks created by international visiting art scholars Edoardo

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Visual Electric aims to liberate AI art generation from chat interfaces

If you’ve tried out at least a few of the text-to-image AI art generation services that have launched in the past few years, such as Midjourney or OpenAI’s various versions of DALL-E, you have likely noticed some commonalities. Chief among them: all pretty much resemble a chat interface. There’s typically a space for the user

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‘There’s no winning strategy’: the pacy, visually stunning film about the dangers of AI – made by AI | Art and design

A toilet bubbles over with sticky yellow goo. Bedazzled executives are treated to a speech by a cartoon ghost. Someone’s dog walks across a wall before reconfiguring its own body parts. Alan Warburton has created some truly mind-blowing images for his new documentary The Wizard of AI. But what’s most impressive – or maybe most

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2023 Miami’s Art Basel will feature paintings made by rescued chimps – NBC 6 South Florida

Monkey see, monkey paint? Paintings made by rescued chimpanzees are set to be on display at Miami’s famed Art Basel art festival, with some being put up for grabs for as much as $10,000. According to Save the Chimps Sanctuary, a sanctuary for animals rescued from laboratories, the pet trade and the entertainment industry, this

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Ross McLaren, Visual Arts Mentor and Filmmaker, Dies at 69

McLaren in Orvieto, Italy. Photos courtesy of Fordham faculty and administrators Ross McLaren, Fordham’s “charming resident contrarian” and an experimental filmmaker who taught film and media production in the University’s visual arts program for nearly four decades, died in Brooklyn, New York, on Nov. 28 after suffering a stroke in July. He was 69.  “[Ross’s]

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Red Pants’ Jason Lambeth crafts a beautiful collage – Tone Madison

Red Pants play in a practice space. The songwriter and visual artist guides us through the making of Red Pants’ latest album, “Not Quite There Yet.” Self-reliance has become an essential part of Jason Lambeth’s creative process. Lambeth makes up half of the psych-tinged rock duo Red Pants, along with longtime collaborator (and award-winning author)

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Is Carriageworks cutting its visual arts programming?

ArtsHub has received a copy of a recent e-letter from Carriageworks CEO, Fergus Linehan to Clothing Store resident artists, which states:  ‘Over the past five months, we have been looking at the future of Carriageworks. It’s an exciting time, but we are also facing some real challenges. In particular, we’ve had to take a long

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